Soviet order of battle for the Battle of Stalingrad

Situation on 18 November 1942

The Soviet order of battle for the Battle of Stalingrad details the major combat units that fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.
This shows the Soviet order of battle on 19 November 1942, the beginning of Operation Uranus.

Red Army Order of Battle[]

Map of the Stalingrad pocket, following Operation Uranus, showing all Axis Divisions and some Soviet Field Armies

Stavka presentatives[]

• Army General G.K. Zhukov
• Colonel-General of Artillery N.N. Voronov
• Colonel-General A.M. Vasilevsky^[1]: 435

Stalingrad Front[]

The Stalingrad Front, under the command of Colonel General Andrey Yeryomenko, assisted by Political Officer Nikita Khrushchev, included the following units:^{[1]: 435–437}

• 8th Air Army (General Timofey Khryukin)
• 28th Army (Lieutenant General Dmitry Ryabyshev)
  • Rifle Divisions: 34th Guards,
  • Special Brigades: 52nd, 152nd, 159th
  • Tank Brigades: 6th Guards
  • Front Reserve: 330th Rifle Division, 85th Tank Bde
• 51st Army (General N.I. Trufanov)
  • Rifle Divisions: 15th Guards, 91st, , 302nd
  • Special Brigades: 38th
  • Tank Brigades: 254th
  • Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: 4th Mechanised Corps, 4th Cavalry Corps
• 57th Army (General F.I. Tolbukhin)
  • Rifle Divisions: 169th, 422nd
  • Special Brigades: 143rd
  • Tank Brigades: 90th, 235th
  • Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: 13th Mechanized Corps
• 62nd Army (General V.I. Chuikov)
  • Rifle Divisions: 13th Guards, 37th Guards, 39th Guards, 45th, 95th, , 138th, 193rd, , , 284th, 308th, 10th NKVD
  • Naval Infantry Brigades: 92nd
  • Special Brigades: 42nd, 115th, 124th, 149th, 160th
  • Tank Brigades: 84th, 137th, 189th
• 64th Army (General M.S. Shumilov)
  • Rifle Divisions: 36th Guards, 29th, 38th, , 204th
  • Naval Infantry Brigades: 154th
  • Special Brigades: 66th, 93rd, 96th, 97th
  • Tank Brigades: 13th, 56th

Don Front[]

Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky's Don Front included the following units:^[1]: 437

• 24th Army (General I.V. Galanin)
  • Rifle Divisions: 49th, 84th, 120th, 173rd, , 260th, 273rd
  • Tank Brigades: 10th
• 65th Army (General Lieutenant-General P.I. Batov)
  • Rifle Divisions: 4th Guards, 27th Guards, 40th Guards, 23rd, 24th, 252nd, , 304th, 321st
  • Tank Brigades: 121st
• 66th Army (Major-General A.S. Zhadov)
  • Rifle Divisions: 64th, 99th, , , 299th, 343rd
  • Tank Brigades: 58th
• 16th Air Army (Major-General S.I. Rudenko)

Southwestern Front[]

The Southwestern Front, commanded by Army General Nikolai Vatutin, included the following units:^{[1]: 437–438}

• 1st Guards Army (General D.D. Lelyushenko)
  • Rifle Divisions: 1st, 153rd, , 203rd, 266th, 278th
  • Front Reserve: 1st Guards Mechanised Corps
• 5th Tank Army (General P.L. Romanenko)
  • Rifle Divisions: 14th Guards, 47th Guards, 50th Guards, 119th, , 346th
  • Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: , 26th Tank Corps, 8th Cavalry Corps
• 21st Army (Major-General Ivan Chistyakov)
  • Rifle Divisions: 63rd, 76th, 96th, 277th, 293rd, 333rd
  • Tank Regiments: 4th Guards, 1st, 2nd
  • Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: , 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps
• 2nd Air Army (Colonel K. Smirnov)^[2]
• 17th Air Army (Major-General S.A. Krasovsky)

Footnotes[]

Citations[]

Bibliography[]

• Beevor, Antony (1998). Stalingrad. Viking, London. ISBN 978-0-14-103240-5.